Anglophone Literature of Caribbean Indenture The Seductive Hierarchies of Empire /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Klein, Alison (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Σειρά: New Caribbean Studies
• Θέματα: Latin American literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Oriental literature.; Latin American/Caribbean Literature.; Contemporary Literature.; Asian Literature.

This book is the first comprehensive study of Anglophone literature depicting the British Imperial system of indentured labor in the Caribbean. Through an examination of intimate relationships within indenture narratives, this text traces the seductive hierarchies of empire - the oppressive ideologi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: The Ties That Bind
• 2. To Have and to Hold: The Role of Marriage in Nonfiction Indenture Narratives
• 3.Tying the Knot: Early Depictions of Indenture
• 4.Tangled Up: Gendered Metaphors of Nation in Contemporary Indo-Caribbean Narratives
• 5. Family Ties: Embodiment of Female Laborers in the Poetry of Indenture
• 6. At the End of their Tether: Women Writing about Indenture
• 7. Conclusion: Loose Threads.